Professor Robert Van De Noort
Professor of Wetland Archaeology
Extension: 4461
Telephone: 01392 264461
I am a landscape archaeologist with a particular interest in wetlands. My main field projects were on the Humber Wetlands Project and the excavation of Sutton Common, an Iron Age 'marsh-fort' in South Yorkshire. My other research is focused on the archaeology of the North Sea, the sewn-plank boats of the Bronze Age, the impact of climate change on wetlands, and the perceptions of wetlands and the sea in the past and present. Recently, I have developed the concept of 'Climate Change Archaeology', which concerns the contribution of archaeological research to current climate change debates. And I am building a Bronze Age-type sewn-plank boat this year. For more details, click the Research tab.
Other functions that keep me occupied include the Deanship of the College of Social Sciences and International Studies, and the Chairmanship of the Subject Committee for Archaeology.
